tomic601
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| Aesthetix Pallene Update for @jafant I have been helping a local guy w TREO CT get system dialed into room with MIMAS he has the Aesthetix card based DAC option and is streaming from Apple TV box to DAC via Toslink cable - speaker wires are AQ Rocket 33 in a bi-wi... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Got Marley in box, no vinyl till after dinner | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Playing some good stuff - most any Nautilus in good shape is super enjoyable, I own a few always looking for more... | |
| What's the deal with Vintage Tube Service? Other than RAM I know of nobody with better test gear for tubes than Andy... he has my CC also, reasonable on shipping time imo ... and the typewriter invoices always crack me up :-)Yes there are other vendors - always good to have depth on the tr... | |
| What other hobby... So is the Devil | |
| What other hobby... God is in the details | |
| Tubes? And it does crack me up when phase accuracy of the amplifier gets mentioned with speakers that start out the impulse test 180 out or with midrange wired out of phase...it’s a system people :-) | |
| Tubes? Having said that, I have heard low efficiency speakers driven by several of Ralph’s smaller amplifiers and they sound sublime :-) but certainly not at the SPL you seek. | |
| Tubes? I think Ralph and I have been round the mulberry bush on trading speaker efficiency for distortion - sure you can get higher output but at what cost ? Lightweight cones have breakup modes in the passband, horns ( I own them ) are mechanical multip... | |
| Tubes? The sound of most but not all tube amps is dominated by the output transformer... yes tube rolling will matter but mostly it’s output which essentially same guys designed your 601 autoformers.... iF you really do like the speakers and the way the ... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Elton John - Don’t Shoot MeMCA3005man, that is some tipped up treble... I think I last heard this on vinyl in about...1974 ish....VG+ or better | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Randy Newman - Sail AwayIF there is somebody that needs this, speak up VG to VG+ | |
| Record Store Day---Drop 1 (2020) Imagine a klan capitalist record store, hundreds of white hot stampers of great White Buffalo by Ted our Bonespurs cadet draft dodger....Easy Street been there done that | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? @slaw I will have a look at the deadwax but everything out of that bulk buy have been domestic pressings I believe... | |
| Whats on your turntable tonight? Ok good Tim, soglad that worked out well then :-) |